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Seminar in Ukrainian Studies, Ukraine Study Group (USG), and Special Presentations

Spring 2012

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Unless otherwise noted, all seminars take place from 4 to 6 p.m. in Room S-050, Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), Harvard University, South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138.

Monday
January 30
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050

Ukraine-Russia Relations: Drama without Conclusion?

James Sherr, Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Programme, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London

Monday
February 6
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050

Chornobyl and Catastrophism in Contemporary Ukrainian Culture

Tamara Hundorova, Head, Department of Literary Theory, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Monday
February 13
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050

Lviv as Ukraine's Western Other

William Risch, Associate Professor, Department of History, Georgia College

A book launch of the speaker’s The Ukrainian West: Culture and the Fate of Empire in Soviet Lviv (Harvard University Press, 2011) will follow the seminar.

Monday
February 20

Holiday: Presidents' Day. No seminar

Monday
February 27
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050

The First Free Generation: Youth in Post-Soviet Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan

Nadia Diuk, Vice President, Programs for Europe and Eurasia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, National Endowment for Democracy, Washington

A book launch of the speaker’s The Next Generation in Russia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan: Youth, Politics, Identity, and Change (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012) will follow the seminar.

Monday
March 5
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050

Independent Ukraine 1991 to 2011

The Trajectory of Ukraine's Post-Soviet Economy

Robert Kravchuk, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of North Carolina-Charlotte

Monday
March 12

Spring Recess. No Seminar

Monday
March 19
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050

An Urban Carousel: The Rise, Fall, and Consolidation of the Soviet Ukrainian Beaumonde

Mayhill Fowler, Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ukrainian Studies, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Monday
March 26
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050

Making and Remaking National Histories in the Soviet Union: The Case of Ukraine (in Comparative Perspective with Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan)

Harun Yilmaz, Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Monday
April 9
4 to 6 PM
CGIS South Rm. S050

Scholarship in the Service of the National Movement: Father Mykhailo Zubryts'kyi (1856-1919) and the Chronicling of the Galician Village

Frank Sysyn, Director, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta

Thursday
April 19
4 to 6 PM
Lower Level Conference Room
Center for European Studies 27 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA

The Petryshyn Memorial Lecture in Ukrainian Studies. Title: TBA

Norman M. Naimark , Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute, Stanford University

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